spire

IPA: spˈaɪr

(now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
A sharp or tapering point.
(architecture) A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
(mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A spiral.
(geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
(transitive) To furnish with a spire.
(intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.

Examples of "spire" in Sentences

You can read more about why the spire is twisted here.
It will drive a 55 grain spire point at 3900 fps with H414.
The spire is the knee joint from the leg of the lubber grasshopper mentioned above.
I also get great accuracy out of Hornady 117 grain spire points over 48. 5g of IMR4350.
‘drop’; ‘wreathe’ and ‘writhe’; ‘spear’ and ‘spire’ (“the least _spire_ of grass”, South); ‘trist’ and ‘trust’; ‘band’, ‘bend’ and ‘bond’;
The shell is cylindrical, dense and heavy; the spire is short, with channelled sutures, and the aperture long and narrow; the anterior part is notched; the columella is callous and striated obliquely.